IBM's customers to get benefits of Cloudflare's Edge computing solutions

KUALA LUMPUR, March 15 (Bernama) -- Cloudflare Inc., an Internet performance and security company, today announced its collaboration with IBM to provide IBM's enterprise customers with the benefits of Cloudflare's edge computing solutions. Under the collaboration, IBM becomes an authorised reseller of Cloudflare's suite of security and performance edge services and it can be deployed in IBM customer environments, including public, private, hybrid cloud, or on-premise. Cloudflare, in a statement, said IBM planned to launch IBM Cloud Internet Services, a one-stop shop for enterprise network edge services, available in the IBM Cloud portal on March 19, 2018. The IBM Cloud Internet Services is designed to enable customers to more easily protect and accelerate their Internet properties such as domains, applications, and APIs through an integration of Cloudflare in the IBM Cloud console. With IBM Cloud Internet Services, in just a few clicks, enterprises can obtain the benefits of Cloudflare's massive global network and core DDoS, WAF, DNS, and web caching solutions, in one place, without having to rely on multiple vendors. "We admire IBM's broad and deep experience with some of the world's most powerful enterprises, and we view this offering as a great first step in working together," said co-founder and chief executive officer of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince. Readers can tune in on March 21, 2018 at 11.30 am PT during the ?Building Future-Proof Cloud Solutions with an Enterprise-First Cloud Infrastructure' keynote to hear Matthew Prince and John Considine discuss the news at IBM THINK. -- BERNAMA